Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 238 340
Rank change year-on-year -103 +102 -32
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 583 659 650
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.32% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.48% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 272 275 354
10th Percentile £36,750 £45,500 £41,625
25th Percentile £46,750 £59,304 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £87,500 £93,438
90th Percentile £99,750 £117,500 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.46% -6.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 79,979 44,380 67,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.78% 80.65%
Number of salaries quoted 55,459 25,207 42,110
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,055
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.10% -8.99%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 28 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 28 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -117 511 £60,000 -14.31% 1,541
London -6 323 £67,136 -16.08% 1,146
Work from Home +18 228 £60,000 -14.29% 582
UK excluding London -190 195 £60,000 -4.00% 561
North of England -32 57 £60,850 -14.60% 115
North West -6 36 £75,000 +11.11% 72
South East -158 36 £38,500 -38.40% 136
Midlands -34 33 £46,750 -22.73% 62
South West -80 27 £68,528 +14.21% 90
West Midlands -28 24 £48,500 -19.17% 38
East of England -30 24 £65,000 -0.76% 57
Yorkshire -44 19 £57,500 -23.33% 34
Scotland +8 12 £77,500 -4.62% 64
East Midlands -31 9 £37,500 -50.00% 24
Wales -73 3 £65,000 +8.59% 9
Northern Ireland -84 3 - - 31
North East - 2 £90,000 - 9

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 37 (6.35%) Confluence
2 14 (2.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 14 (2.40%) CMS
3 10 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.51%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.17%) Apache
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.17%) Drupal
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 52 (8.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 26 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.86%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.86%) Moqups
5 3 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 38 (6.52%) Workfront
2 8 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.69%) Shopify
4 3 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.51%) iTrent
5 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.17%) Eikon
6 1 (0.17%) Magento
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.17%) RMDS
6 1 (0.17%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 83 (14.24%) AWS
2 81 (13.89%) SaaS
3 53 (9.09%) Azure
4 52 (8.92%) iPaaS
5 20 (3.43%) GCP
6 16 (2.74%) Google Workspace
7 15 (2.57%) Figma
8 13 (2.23%) Power Platform
9 12 (2.06%) GitHub
10 11 (1.89%) GitHub Copilot
11 10 (1.72%) Anthropic Claude
11 10 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (1.03%) Asana
13 6 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.86%) Copilot Studio
14 5 (0.86%) Power Automate
14 5 (0.86%) Zapier
15 4 (0.69%) Amazon Bedrock
15 4 (0.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 60 (10.29%) Broadband
2 33 (5.66%) HTTP
3 10 (1.72%) WAN
4 9 (1.54%) Firewall
5 7 (1.20%) SD-WAN
6 6 (1.03%) LAN
7 5 (0.86%) Network Security
8 4 (0.69%) DNS
8 4 (0.69%) Multicast
8 4 (0.69%) NGN
8 4 (0.69%) SAN
9 3 (0.51%) DHCP
9 3 (0.51%) Intranet
9 3 (0.51%) MPLS
9 3 (0.51%) NX-OS
9 3 (0.51%) VSAT
9 3 (0.51%) WLAN
10 2 (0.34%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.34%) Skype
10 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (9.26%) Metadata
2 12 (2.06%) Power BI
3 8 (1.37%) Big Data
4 6 (1.03%) BigQuery
4 6 (1.03%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.34%) Mixpanel
7 2 (0.34%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.17%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.17%) MySQL
8 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.17%) Redis
8 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 61 (10.46%) JIRA
2 11 (1.89%) Git
3 10 (1.72%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.37%) Selenium
5 6 (1.03%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.86%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.86%) Postman
7 4 (0.69%) JUnit
8 3 (0.51%) GitLab
9 2 (0.34%) TestNG
10 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 188 (32.25%) Marketing
2 187 (32.08%) Social Skills
3 183 (31.39%) Finance
4 93 (15.95%) Law
5 92 (15.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 89 (15.27%) Banking
7 83 (14.24%) Analytical Skills
8 62 (10.63%) Presentation Skills
9 58 (9.95%) Retail
10 46 (7.89%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (5.15%) Legal
11 30 (5.15%) Public Sector
12 28 (4.80%) Organisational Skills
13 22 (3.77%) Manufacturing
14 17 (2.92%) Telecoms
15 13 (2.23%) Back Office
15 13 (2.23%) Italian Language
16 11 (1.89%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.89%) Publishing
17 10 (1.72%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 166 (28.47%) Product Manager
2 83 (14.24%) Lead
3 73 (12.52%) Product Owner
3 73 (12.52%) Senior
4 47 (8.06%) Software Engineer
5 39 (6.69%) Senior Manager
6 34 (5.83%) Development Engineer
6 34 (5.83%) Software Development Engineer
7 32 (5.49%) Senior Product Manager
8 31 (5.32%) Lead Software Engineer
9 20 (3.43%) Product Lead
10 17 (2.92%) Consultant
11 16 (2.74%) Technical Manager
12 15 (2.57%) Development Manager
13 13 (2.23%) Platform Manager
13 13 (2.23%) Senior Software Engineer
13 13 (2.23%) Technical Engineer
13 13 (2.23%) Technical Product Manager
14 12 (2.06%) Developer
14 12 (2.06%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (6.86%) REST
2 19 (3.26%) Terraform
3 15 (2.57%) Google Maps API
4 14 (2.40%) React
5 11 (1.89%) HTML
6 9 (1.54%) LangChain
7 8 (1.37%) PyTorch
7 8 (1.37%) TensorFlow
8 7 (1.20%) Spring
9 6 (1.03%) Pandas
9 6 (1.03%) Spring Boot
10 5 (0.86%) CrewAI
10 5 (0.86%) CSS
10 5 (0.86%) LlamaIndex
10 5 (0.86%) XML
11 4 (0.69%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.69%) LangGraph
11 4 (0.69%) Node.js
11 4 (0.69%) NumPy
11 4 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 196 (33.62%) Product Ownership
2 65 (11.15%) Social Media
3 53 (9.09%) Marketing Technology
3 53 (9.09%) Over-the-Top Content
4 38 (6.52%) Public Cloud
5 37 (6.35%) Cloud Native
6 34 (5.83%) AI Agents
7 29 (4.97%) Onboarding
8 19 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (2.92%) Management Information System
10 16 (2.74%) Augmented Reality
11 15 (2.57%) Virtual Reality
12 13 (2.23%) Web Conferencing
13 12 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (2.06%) Enterprise Cloud
14 11 (1.89%) Blog
15 10 (1.72%) Driving Licence
16 9 (1.54%) Data Centre
16 9 (1.54%) Mobile App
16 9 (1.54%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.57%) Linux
2 11 (1.89%) Windows
3 4 (0.69%) Unix
4 3 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) CentOS
5 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (60.55%) Roadmaps
2 251 (43.05%) Agile
3 177 (30.36%) Product Roadmap
4 156 (26.76%) AI
5 141 (24.19%) Decision-Making
6 138 (23.67%) Product Vision
7 129 (22.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 125 (21.44%) Stakeholder Management
9 123 (21.10%) Customer Experience
10 117 (20.07%) User Stories
11 112 (19.21%) Product Backlog
12 104 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
13 89 (15.27%) Software Engineering
14 86 (14.75%) Analytics
14 86 (14.75%) Product Strategy
15 85 (14.58%) Product Requirements
16 81 (13.89%) Sprint Planning
17 78 (13.38%) User Experience
18 75 (12.86%) Matrix Organization
19 73 (12.52%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 51 (8.75%) Java
2 38 (6.52%) Python
3 13 (2.23%) SQL
3 13 (2.23%) TypeScript
4 12 (2.06%) JavaScript
5 10 (1.72%) C++
6 6 (1.03%) Bicep
6 6 (1.03%) R
7 5 (0.86%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.51%) Bash
8 3 (0.51%) C#
8 3 (0.51%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.51%) PHP
9 2 (0.34%) Perl
10 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 140 (24.01%) Degree
2 37 (6.35%) Master's Degree
3 25 (4.29%) MBA
4 24 (4.12%) Security Cleared
5 20 (3.43%) SC Cleared
6 15 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.54%) HND
7 9 (1.54%) PhD
8 8 (1.37%) HNC
8 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.20%) CSPO
9 7 (1.20%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.20%) PMP
10 6 (1.03%) CCNA
10 6 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.69%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.69%) MCSE
12 3 (0.51%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.51%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.69%) QA
2 24 (4.12%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.54%) GDPR
4 8 (1.37%) PMO
5 7 (1.20%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.03%) SLA
7 4 (0.69%) PERC
8 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.34%) DICOM
8 2 (0.34%) GRC
8 2 (0.34%) HL7
8 2 (0.34%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (1.72%) Docker
2 6 (1.03%) Firmware
3 5 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.69%) vSphere
5 3 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.86%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.51%) WSUS
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.17%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.17%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 56 (9.61%) Adobe
2 46 (7.89%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.80%) Salesforce
4 24 (4.12%) Google
5 17 (2.92%) Facebook
5 17 (2.92%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.23%) Cisco
7 12 (2.06%) Workday
8 10 (1.72%) Oracle
9 6 (1.03%) Juniper
10 5 (0.86%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.86%) VMware
11 4 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.51%) Aderant
12 3 (0.51%) Civica
12 3 (0.51%) FIS
12 3 (0.51%) iManage
12 3 (0.51%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.51%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.51%) Starlink